Meet Your AI: Collaboration by Design
Build a personal AI Collaboration System that helps AI understand how you think, work, decide, and communicate so can you stop re-explaining yourself every session.
AI is fast. But fast is not the same as useful.
When AI doesn't understand the relationship, every request becomes another attempt to rebuild the context.
AI Almost Gets It Right
The answer is polished and fast, but it misses your context, priorities, or judgment.
You Keep Correcting the Same Things
You repeatedly explain how much detail you want, what matters, and how the AI should respond.
The AI Fills In What You Haven't Defined
Tone, depth, challenge, assumptions, and certainty are often left to the AI's defaults.
A practical course for building your AI Partnership Profile.
Who Is My AI?
Create an AI Persona with the role, expertise, perspective, thinking style, and communication approach you need.
What Should My AI Understand?
Build a focused Human Profile around your work, priorities, stakeholders, preferences, and constraints.
How Will We Work Together?
Create a How We Work Agreement covering clarification, challenge, evidence, and human decision-making.
Bring everything together into one AI Partnership Profile. Activate it in real work, see what changes, and refine it from evidence.
Join the first release, launching September 10th.
Get early access, a private group where your questions get answered, and more.
- Early access to the complete course
- Guided templates for building your AI Partnership Profile
- Founding-member pricing, locked in
- Access to a private feedback and support space
- Future course updates included
No coding or AI development experience required. Works with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, or your platform of choice.
From the original Collaboration by Design workshop.
"The AI doesn't get smarter; the relationship gets better. When we intentionally design how we work with AI, it becomes a much more effective thought partner for strategy and decision-making."
"Skills Leap gave me a gift at a workshop last week: a mind-blowing personalized AI operating system created during the session."
"The shift is from re-explaining myself at the start of every session to working from durable context. The thinking picks up where it left off instead of resetting."
Built for experienced knowledge workers.
This course is for you if:
- You already use ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot, but results vary in quality
- You're tired of repeating your role, audience, and project context
- You want AI to support your thinking, not just generate generic content
- You value practical systems over prompt tricks or technical theory
- You're willing to reflect on how you think, decide, and define quality
This may not be the right fit if:
- You've never used an AI tool and need a basic introduction
- You're looking for a library of copy-and-paste prompts
- You want AI to complete work without your judgment or review
- You're looking for technical instruction in coding or APIs
- You expect one setup exercise to produce perfect results forever
The team behind Meet Your AI.
Darren Nerland
20+ years building leadership and talent systems inside organizations like Amazon and the Gates Foundation. Skills Leap is the consultancy he wished existed when he was navigating complexity from the inside.
Sean Childers
Deep operator experience in workforce strategy and organizational capability building, translating complex systems challenges into frameworks leaders can actually use.
Jeanette Rogers
Founder of Geek Speak Translator. Drawing on decades of consulting, including work with Microsoft and the Gates Foundation, she helps teams turn AI strategy into practical use.
Questions before you join.
Is this a prompting course?
No. Clear prompts still matter, but this starts one step earlier, defining who your AI is, what it should understand about you, and how you want to work together.
What will I have when I finish?
A completed, portable, tested AI Partnership Profile: an AI Persona, a Human Profile, and a How We Work Agreement activated on a real work situation.
Do I need technical skills?
No. This isn't a coding or AI engineering course. You'll work directly with your own AI through guided conversations, starter prompts, and activities.
When does the course begin?
Founding members receive access beginning September 10th, with course materials released in staged weekly drops during the initial cohort.
What if I can't attend the live sessions?
You can still complete the course. Weekly Ask the Experts sessions are optional, recordings will be made available, and you can submit questions in advance.